Old Bill spins faster and faster
Poor old Billy Ockham. His spirit gets no rest.

Consider this paragraph, which is typical of the "thinking" within physics:

Worse, the particles and forces in the Standard Model can account for only around 4% of the mass of the universe. The remaining 96% is dark matter and dark energy, and scientists have no idea what either of these things might be. The Standard Model has been a great success, but it can take us only so far in understanding the fabric of reality.

A real scientist would instantly and totally abandon a theory that only accounts for 4% of whatever. But these physicists are NOT scientists. Instead of abandoning, they make up entities like "dark matter" and "dark energy", and completely reify these entities.

"The remaining 96% IS dark matter and dark energy." No it IS not. You can't use the word IS. You cannot say that the universe consists almost entirely of words and names that you have made up to fill in missing parts of your equations. If these words and names corresponded to any actual observable things, we would be observing those things directly or indirectly. If these words were real things or real forces that permeate everything, you would be able to see or measure the forces. Electrostatic force is real because we can see and measure its effects in real situations. We know which things attract and repel, and we know in great detail how to control it. We recognized this force in everyday life before we named it and quantified it and controlled it. We did NOT name it first then spend trillions of dollars trying to justify the name.

As of now, these "dark" words and names supposedly exist everywhere but Earth, everywhere except the places where we might be able to measure them.

This is NOT physics. This is very poor metaphysics, a variety of metaphysics that no responsible theologian would practice. Try it: "God exists everywhere except Earth. We know he's out there because our scriptures don't make sense unless we assume he's out there; but he never actually created anything, nobody can claim to be inspired by him, and he doesn't judge anything here." Well then, you don't believe in God. That's all. Talk straight, fuckhead.
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